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Scott Mills, who is currently filling in for DJ Zoe Ball on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, previously voiced his concerns about hosting a breakfast radio programme. In the final episode of Celebrity Race Around the World, which was broadcast on Wednesday 18 September and filmed earlier this year, Scott told his husband Sam Vaughan after a very early pre-dawn start during the final leg of the race: “Remind me not to do the breakfast show.”

Scott hasn’t heeded his own advice, and is currently having to get up very early to host the Radio 2 Breakfast Show as he is filling in for regular DJ Zoe Ball, who has been absent from her show for the past five weeks. The BBC have yet to state why 53 year old Zoe is away, and Scott and fellow DJ Gaby Roslin have been filling in since 8 August.

Zoe Ball‘s BBC Radio 2 return date has been revealed amid growing concern over her absence.

There has recently been much speculation around the radio presenter’s future with the station after she took an extended leave of absence following the death of her mum.

News of her return date follows Scott Mills filling in for the host without mentioning her absence earlier this week.

However, according to the BBC’s schedules, listeners will be able to hear Ball back on the airwaves from Monday 23 September, with Mills returning to his regular afternoon slot.

Ball’s mother, Julie Peckham, was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer earlier this year. In March, the host revealed she would be taking time off from her breakfast show to care for her.

But, a month later she shared the news…

Former BBC Breakfast star Victoria Valentine has been showered with masses of congratulatory messages after she shared an update on her career, this after exiting the programme a year ago now.

The ex-BBC presenter took to Instagram in June to announce a new venture as a trustee of the Eden Project, after leaving broadcast to pursue academic studies in psychological sciences. Victoria took to Instagram to update her loyal legion on new developments and penned: “Rapid climate change, increasing sea levels, rising temperatures, biodiversity loss, deforestation and pollution. The planet is in a state of emergency. If the planet’s health is threatened, so is ours.”

The star who walked away from the BBC last year, went on to explain: “The Eden Project has big plans to expand its sites and…